. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 150 Annals of the South African Museum. more distinctly yellowish at base, with the basal comb black, the veins dark brownish, becoming paler towards base, with the discal cross vein a little before middle of discoidal cell, the squamae whitish opaque, dark-bordered, and white fringed; halteres pale yellowish, with the knobs dark blackish brown above and laterally. Head with the interocular space, at narrowest part in $, about 2 times as broad as tubercle, in <$ in contact above; antennae black, w
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 150 Annals of the South African Museum. more distinctly yellowish at base, with the basal comb black, the veins dark brownish, becoming paler towards base, with the discal cross vein a little before middle of discoidal cell, the squamae whitish opaque, dark-bordered, and white fringed; halteres pale yellowish, with the knobs dark blackish brown above and laterally. Head with the interocular space, at narrowest part in $, about 2 times as broad as tubercle, in <$ in contact above; antennae black, with joint 3 scarcely broadened basally, rapidly tapering only in apical fourth, with scattered short hairs visible above in certain positions, with at least the first terminal joint distinctly separately visible and with 2 and 3 fused but prominent; proboscis about 5 mm. long and with the fine spinules on its surface rather distinctly visible. Legs without any spines on front femora below, with about 1 spine on middle ones in front and with about 13 spines on hind ones below from near base to apex and with rather numerous spines apically above on hind ones; claws rather rapidly bent downwards apically and with the pulvilli about reaching the apices of claws. Hypopygium of £ (text-fig. 20) showing dorsal, lateral, and ventral views of the raised crest-like inner apical dorsal margin (Cr.) in neck region of basal parts which is very prominent in this species; dorsum of basal parts with setiferous punctures; aedeagus with a bell-shaped base and no process below. Types in the Imperial Institute of Entomology. Length of body: about 9 mm. Length of wing: about 9J mm. Locality.— Karoo: Calvinia (Mrs. Cockerell, 11-16/11/31) (Holotype). S. Karoo near Oudtshoorn (Mrs. Cockerell, 1/11/31) (Allotype).. Text-fig. 20.—Side view and half of ventral view of hypopygium of $ of Bombylius cockerelli n. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may ha
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